The first-ever live album from legendary instrumental juggernaut Don Caballero! Gang Banged With A Headache, And Live is a recently-surfaced “authorized bootleg” from the math rock pioneers. Recorded in 2003 at a single show in Chicago, Gang Banged captures Don Cab’s unrivaled musicianship in gritty, brash fashion.Featuring the lineup of Gene Doyle, Jeff Ellsworth, Jason Jouver, and (of …
Cul de Sac has been described as “post-rock,” a vague category for bands typically uncategorizable. Cul de Sac weaves instrumental trances around guitarist Glenn Jones’ finger picked stylings that recall surf, Middle Eastern, or folk music. He also plays “the contraption,” a Hawaiian lap-steel-guitar laden with effects pedals and played with kitchen utensils. Synthesist Robin Amos produces distinctive …
Speaking through actions is traditionally the task of self-assured, moral men adhering to a higher standard than lip service. Applying the same status to a rock-n-roll band is a woeful misstep but, at the same time, there is a similarity in the self-assurance it takes to maintain an instrumental rock band these days. Audiences are used to the …
In Prism is the best Polvo record even before you get to the majestic “A Link in the Chain,” serene and tempestuous like few other things you’ll hear. The album was recorded with Brian Paulson and Polvo has never sounded better. Polvo spent 1990 98 giving voice to a chorus of discrete rock & roll ideas that really …
HQ: Los Angeles, CA CHECK OUT: Automatic City (THE MILITIA GROUP; themilitiagroup.com) FOR FANS OF: Cursive, Fugazi, Minus The Bear On Automatic City, Controlling The Famous display their ability to combine smart, belligerent math rock with huge melodies. Produced by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, the Locust), the disc is a concept album that attempts to immerse …
Simmering in the midst of a quirky and prolific Nashville indie rock scene, Character riffs with a sidereal intuition of filtered rock and enigmatic sounds. Terse and bright, witty and catastrophic, rhythmic and stylish, Character’s album We Also Create False Promisesoffers an abstracted sound landscape reminiscent of a waking dream. Character is a blend of irregular rockers …
“Crime in Choir’s The Hoop serves up more of the band’s fascinating instrumental music, which draws from math rock, prog, pop, and jazz influences. However, this cut-and-dried description doesn’t do justice to the power of Crime in Choir’s music, which is aggressive and beautiful, fast-moving but hypnotic, and evocative and tightly wound at the same time. Crime in …
Gangs is the second full length from And So I Watch You From Afar, and the band’s most cohesive record. A 44 minute, eight song unyielding document of the band’s last two years playing together told through ironclad guitar riffs and colossal yet increasingly subtle rhythms.Known for their unrelenting tours that has seen them play over 300 gigs …
During their initial run from 1990 1998, Polvo crafted a sound so fantastically obstinate and so perfectly cockeyed that its DNA is essentially resistant to mediocrity or repetition. On Siberia, that sound feels more limber and more aerodynamic than ever. Its songs glide and bob like UFOs, both serene and …